Share where the Holy Spirit has been at work this week. Or, in the spirit of the Advent wreath, share where you saw Hope (1st candle) or Peace (2nd candle)
Bonnie – God put it on someone’s heart this week to give a gift for Amy Cooney and I had the pleasure of delivering it to her this week. It was a blessing to her. It gave her hope that she could have a good Christmas with her family. So, whoever that person was, Amy would like to thank them. She said, “This is like God sent an angel to me!” So, she was blessed this week; I think the person who gave the donation was blessed and I would just like to thank them. And I thank God for putting that on their heart.
Michele – This may be a little thing, but God was with me this week, for sure, when I didn’t fall off the ladder when I put up the lights around my garage. I can be a little unsteady; he definitely had his hand on me. Thank you Jesus!
Jan – You know, Bonnie was saying that Amy said it was an angel that came to her. Well, this morning I read the first chapter of Luke when the angel came to Mary; she responded so beautifully and said – I am your handmaiden, let it be unto me…and according to your word, in another translation. According to his word, we are free – who the Son sets free is free indeed. Also, he said – Greater things than these you are going to do. And he said – You can speak to a mountain…whether it be closed doors, we can speak to closed doors and they’re going to open! I have been speaking to those doors when I come into this Lighthouse or the doors to the Sanctuary, the Lord is hungry for our worship. Hungry for it and we will satisfy Him, just wait and see what the Lord does!
Martha – The one person in our community who contracted Covid in March; she was on the ventilator for 30 days. She got out of the hospital and we saw her walking around the neighborhood. Well, she passed away unexpectedly last week. The whole community was pretty sad about it. But the one thing that I do have to say is that God has brought us to such a nice community. Not everybody knows everyone, but there is such a caring idea that when the angels came to get her, she knew in her heart that she was not going without people thinking about her. And I thought that really gives you peace; that really gives you God’s love. God has spread his love around us, so we’re pretty lucky where we live; it was a nice thought to know that she wasn’t going alone.
Pastor Brett – What was her name, Martha? Jan. Lord, we remember Jan and lift her up to you this morning.
Debbie – It’s the little things you know. Yesterday, before I went into work, I looked at the schedule and I said – Oh, my gosh, we only have 2 RNs when we need to have 4. So, the prayer into work was Lord, let me be able to go through this; things would go smoothly. And a nice surprise when I got to work was our new Team Lead was boarded on, so she was there; we had 3 instead of 2 RNs I thought we were going to work with. It did go smoothly; He even cares about your job. When it looks like it’s going to be awful and then it changes quite dramatically!
Pastor Brett – Amen! God is in those details looking out for us steadying us on ladders, helping us to cover our shifts. That’s who God is so, we give God glory and praise Him.
Gwen – That none of our family actually has Covid yet.
Pastor Brett – Well, that is something to be really thankful for, isn’t it Gwen?
Neil – For the first time in a really long retail career, I actually have the day before, the day after; the day of Christmas off! If you work in retail that never ever happens. But, as a silver lining to the whole pandemic thing, we don’t need as many people there to run the store. So, they’re giving a lot more people, almost 70% of them that time off to be with their families, because we can afford to do it. I thought that was pretty cool this year.
Paige – God Sighting: This week we were recording audio of scriptures for the Lighthouse Advent experience. Either I would make a mistake or Gwen would make a mistake. I walked away to take a break and when I returned Gwen said – They are all done, I finished them! I listened to the recordings and Gwen had done them perfectly!